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Youth Today: Lessons Lost

By Karen Pittman, January 1998

01/01/1998
Youth Today: Inequality Revisited

By Karen Pittman, November 1997

11/01/1997
Youth Today: Good, Better, Best. Have We Let it Rest?

By Karen Pittman, September 1997

What is best practice? This was the question put to us by a group of South African programs recently convened to discuss the topic. It turned out to be difficult to answer.

09/01/1997
Youth Today: Promises, Promises.

By Karen Pittman, July 1997

The President's Summit for America's Future unleashed an unprecedented wave of national commitments, local mobilization, media coverage and individual good will. The question at hand is obvious. Will America's Promise be able to ride that wave to shore? As one who was there before, during and immediately after the Summit, I have this answer: It has to.

07/01/1997
Youth Today: Know Thy Neighbor's Child: Rekindling Community Responsibility for Youth Development

By Karen Pittman, May 1997

05/01/1997
Community Development and Youth Development: Beacons: A Union of Community and Youth Development

This report is a compilation of three case studies of New York City organizations that have started Beacons, school-based community centers that offer young people and families a wide array of opportunities to engage in youth development and community building.

04/03/1997
Community Development and Youth Development: Promises and Challenges of Convergence

This paper is a persuasive overview of theoretical and practical evidence of youth and community development as convergent goals or strategies prepared by Michele Cahill, Director of the Youth Development Institute of the Fund for the City of New York. Accompanying this piece is a case study of Youth Development, Inc., a youth-serving organization that has now established a CDC.

04/02/1997
Community Development and Youth Development: The Potential for Convergence

This paper, which builds on a presentation made at a INTRODUCTION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT December 1996 Wingspread conference, is accompanied by case studies of three community development corporations that have significant youth programming and involvement.

04/01/1997
Youth Today: Opportunity Knocks

By Karen Pittman, March/April 1997

03/01/1997
Youth Today: Beyond the Clubhouse Doors

By Karen Pittman, January 1997

01/01/1997